There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation; it may be a conjuring trick, with a natural explanation. But the explanation of the conjuring trick, if it is to satisfy me, will have to be better than the natural explanations I have heard. The thing is magic, true or false. Second, I came to feel as if magic must have a meaning, and meaning must have some one to mean it. There was something personal in the world, as in a work of art; whatever it meant it meant violently. Third, I thought this
purpose beautiful in its old design, in spite of its defects, such as dragons.